An important labor market trend is the rapid increase of the contingent workforce. Contingent workers are members of the workforce who do not perceive themselves as having an explicit or implicit contract for continuing employment. Under this definition, it is estimated that 6 million workers are cl...
Most laid-off workers and rural-to-urban migrants have found (re-)employment in the informal rather than in the formal sector and are thus not eligible for health insurance coverage either in the GIS, LIS or BHI. Figure 1 shows the changes in employment structure in urban China from 1990 ...
In addition, we asked participants about their migration status, employment status, and health expenditure in the past year. We hypothesized that migrants have a lower WTP for BHI than Wuhan residents, because they are more likely than residents to leave Wuhan in the future and the BHI reimburse...
low-skill jobs developed to accommodate the high levels of unemployed youth in Langa has led to others settling in the community. The Government explained that the prospect for greater employment opportunities created a “push factor” for in-migration to the Western Cape (Posel,2010; Statistics...